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AirTag stalking protection is live on Android — here’s how to set it up(www.tomsguide.com)

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Not A Bird@lemmy.world
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I got an alert yesterday when I traveled by Bus. I see false positives scaring people using public transport.

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Shouldn’t really happen because it only alerts for Airtags that are not with their owner. Then again, they only just released the ability to share an Airtag among multiple iPhone users, so false positives in public transport could be shared Airtags that are with people who haven’t set up that feature yet.

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That is not my understanding. The description for the manual scan specifically mentions trackers “that are separated from their owners” A colleague and I only found this sentence after having tried it for quite some time with an Airtag on his keyring. He then turned on airplane mode on his iPhone and my Pixel immediately found the Airtag. (We couldn’t make it ring tho, which was offered to me)

So I still believe the case you are describing is Airtags not with their owners. Maybe kids with Airtags connected to their parents’ phones. And like I said, the new feature where multiple people can connect to one Airtag might alleviate (not entirely fix obviously) that issue.

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Rexios@lemm.ee
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AirTag sharing is in iOS 17 which isn’t released yet

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Then my colleague probably has the beta because he could activate the feature but not add anybody to his Airtag which makes sense when they’re still on stable.

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